Sentences with phrase «profit virtual charter school»

But Cobey also made it clear that the state would expect compliance with the attendance policies that were laid out in the applications and charter agreements made by the national for - profit virtual charter school operators K12, Inc. and Pearson.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

While the incorporation of technology into the classroom is essential, the academic success rate of for - profit virtual charter schools is incomparable to that of traditional public schools, where academic success is the paramount concern.

In fact, the only person in the story likely to be doing very well is Mr. Packard himself who used to pull in a salary of $ 5 million to run the K12 Inc. family of for profit virtual charter schools (with an educational record so dubious that the NCAA refuses to accept credits from the schools) and whose Pansophic Learning is now the largest for profit operator of charter schools in Ohio.

Not exact matches

But in too many parts of the country, weak authorizing systems have encouraged a proliferation of charter schools — particularly virtual and for - profit ones — that don't serve students well and taint the broader reputation of charters.

CREDO found that non-profit schools made much larger test gains than for - profit ones, prompting AFT president Randi Weingarten to thunder «this CREDO study confirms that for - profit charter and virtual schools serve the interests of corporations» rather than kids.

For White Hat Management, the politically connected Ohio for - profit operating both traditional and virtual charter schools, the success rate under NCLB was a mere 2 percent, while for schools run by K12 Inc., it was 25 percent.

Bush shared his experiences initiating some of the nation's first for - profit and virtual charter school reforms as the governor of Florida, acknowledging his policy ideas came from some in the room.

In spite of a wealth of information that points to K12, Inc. running a business operation that has poor returns by failing to adequately educate students, yet continues to profit mightily from state taxpayers, some are still enthusiastic about the prospect of the virtual charter school coming to North Carolina, including Rep. Larry Pittman, a supporter of virtual charters.

In 2014, the online charter school Primavera Technical Learning Center paid a flat fee of $ 12.2 million for software and curriculum services to The American Virtual Academy, a for - profit company owned by the school's charter holder.

The Navy training introspection made me think of our own «in a box» reforms that include virtual schools, credit recovery, for - profit charters and any number of new programs that claim all will reach competency in far shorter time than in traditional programs.

[2] rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com../Desktop/Public%20School%20Options.pdf

North Carolina public education backers are fired up this week over a new round of advocacy at the N.C. General Assembly that seems geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.

Just take a look at the track records of some of the virtual charter school operators who are invading our state, or at some of the for - profit «Education Management Organizations» (EMOs) that wish to operate many of our state's charter schools.

Public school supporters say the new push at the legislature is a misleading new tactic that seems intended to reclassify for - profit virtual charters and private schools as public institutions.

For - profit K12 Inc. virtual charter school giant claims Common Core testing could hurt its profitability???

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Ball writes, «Public school supporters say the new push... is a misleading new tactic that seems intended to reclassify for - profit virtual charters and private schools as public institutions.»

The effort, according to education reporter Billy Ball, is «geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.»

Some of the new slots will likely be filled by schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit companies like the National Heritage Academies (which already manage five charters in the state) and «virtual charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.

In 2013, three students in Madawaska signed up for Maine Connection Academy, along with Maine Virtual Academy, one of two virtual charter schools in the state, both managed by for - profit comVirtual Academy, one of two virtual charter schools in the state, both managed by for - profit comvirtual charter schools in the state, both managed by for - profit companies.

Michigan permits practices barred by some other states, such as for - profit charter operators, virtual charter schools and multiple charter - authorizing bodies.

However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K - 12, Inc., which promotes «virtual» charter schools as well as «virtual» voucher schools.

K12, Inc., a Virginia - based for - profit company that runs online schools in 32 states and attributes nearly 85 percent of its income to public dollars, has been trying to make its way into North Carolina to open a virtual charter school.

The New Jersey Virtual Academy Charter School had been recruiting students for months and intended to open this fall for 850 students in grades K - 10, according to Jeff Kwitowski, a spokesman at Virginia - based K12, a for - profit online learning company.

Mandate all deformers in Florida, Washington DC, New York and beyond to disclose kickbacks and profits related to financial conflicts of interest with testing conglomerates, the in - the - box mass - produced curriculum industry, lobbyists, charter schools, virtual schools, technology vendors, TFA, and family members.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

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She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

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They seek alternatives to democratically controlled public schools, such as privately managed charters, for - profit charter schools, virtual schools, and, in some states, vouchers for religious schools.